Events

W piątek siódmego grudnia 2018 roku Wydział Anglistyki gościł uczniów I Liceum im. Jana Kasprowicza w Inowrocławiu. Uczniowie wraz z wychowawczynią - panią mgr Ewą Furman, uczestniczyli w wykładach i prelekcjach zorganizowanych przez Zakład Literatury Angielskiej i Lingwistyki Literackiej oraz Zakład Literatury Amerykańskiej. 

Program obejmował wykłady i rozmowy o sztuce współczesnego komiksu (Dr Małgorzata Olsza: “The graphic novel as literature: Themes, issues, and perspectives offered by 'literary comics’”), tajnikach tłumaczeń literackich („Buntowniczki. Niezwykłe życie Mary Wollstonecraft i jej córki Mary Shelley” - spotkanie z tłumaczką Pauliną Surniak z Wydawnictwa Poznańskiego) i historii barwnych adaptacji najsłynniejszej książki Marry Shelley pt. „Frankenstein” (Dr Ryszard Bartnik: “Variations on Frankenstein – Monster, freak, redeemer”). Spotkanie było częścią Dnia Literatury organizowanego co roku z okazji ważnych literackich rocznic.

Zapraszamy do obejrzenia zdjęć upamietniających spotkanie.

On Friday, 7th of December 2018, Faculty of English was visited by the students from Jan Kasprowicz High School in Inowrocław, accompanied by their teacher Ms Ewa Furman. They took part in lectures and presentations organised by Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics and Department of American Literature. They immersed themselves in the world of contemporary graphic novels (Dr Małgorzata Olsza: “The graphic novel as literature: Themes, issues, and perspectives offered by 'literary comics’”), discovered the secrets of literary translations (meeting with Ms Paulina Surniak – the translator of „Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley” from Wydawnictwo Poznańskie) and learned a lot about many creative adaptations of Marry Shelley’s famous book Frankenstein. The event is part of Literature Day organised annually and dedicated to significant literary anniversaries.

Click here to see Photos from the Event.

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Z przyjemnością informujemy, że Dziekan Wydziału Anglistyki prof. dr hab. Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk oraz Kierownik Zakładu Studiów Niderlandzkich i Południowoafrykańskich prof. dr hab. Jerzy Koch znaleźli się w Setce powodów do dumy: 100 ludzi nauki z Wielkopolski Głosu Wielkopolskiego. Serdecznie gratulujemy!

O tym czy potrzebne nam są gesty i jak radzą sobie z nimi osoby niewidome z dr Anną Jelec rozmawia Jagoda Haloszka. Wywiad jest dostępny w najnowszym wydaniu Życia Uniwersyteckiego.

 We warmly invite you to join us for our January meeting, during which we will be discussing Milkman by Anna Burns.

Friday 11/01/2019

12:00-13:00

Collegium Novum Room C1

WA Friday Lunch Talks are monthly meetings with presentations of current research results or research in progress by WA faculty, staff, or PhD students. Each talk is of 30 minutes (+ 10 minutes for discussion).

Bartosz Wiland
Department of English-Polish Comparative Linguistics
Resolving ordering paradoxes in cross-categorial paradigms with  declarative complementizers

Abstract:

Cross-linguistically attested syncretisms between the nominal declarative complementizer (COMP), the demonstrative pronoun (DEM), the interrogative pronoun ‘what’ (WH), and a relative pronoun (REL) suggest that these four categories form a paradigm, understood as an ordered set of related grammatical forms. The syncretic alignment between these categories suggests that they are grammatically contained as follows: DEM > COMP > REL > WH. Such an ordering is motivated by the premise that syncretism anchors structural containment since it only targets contiguous layers of a syntactic structure, a well-attested generalization known as *ABA. However, morphological containment of DEM in the structure of WH, REL, and COMP that we find in certain Slavic languages suggests an ordering where DEM is not the biggest but the smallest category in the sequence: COMP > REL > WH > DEM. I will argue that this paradox can be sorted out if we introduce a typology od demonstratives, a step that will turn out to be useful in resolving (an apparent) *ABA violation in a cross-categorial paradigm in Basaá (Bantu), a language which shows syncretism between the demonstrative and the relativizer to the exclusion of the declarative complementizer.

Kacper Łodzikowski and Mateusz Jekiel
Department of Older Germanic Languages
Board games for teaching English prosody to advanced EFL learners

Abstract:

This exploratory study fills the gap in research on using print board games to teach English prosody to advanced EFL learners at university level. We developed three in-class print-and-play board games that accompanied three prosody-related topics in a course in English phonetics and phonology at a Polish university. For those topics, compared to topics without any board games, learners reported higher in-class engagement and obtained higher post-class quiz scores. At the end of the course, learners rated board games as equally or more useful than some of the other teaching aids. While traditional printed worksheets were still rated as the most useful teaching aid, learners expressed their preference for using extra classroom time for playing board games instead of completing extra worksheet exercises. We hope these promising results encourage teachers to experiment with implementing these and other board games in their advanced curricula.

Konkurs Zaprojektuj program studiów swoich marzeń trwa - Termin zgłaszania projektów upływa 31 stycznia 2019! Przypominamy, że na zwycięzców czekają atrakcyjne nagrody.

Czekamy na Państwa pomysły!

• Ile godzin PNJA? Jakie komponenty? Jakie obowiązkowe? Jakie do wyboru?
• Ile godzin zajęć z literatury, językoznawstwa i kulturoznawstwa? Jakie obowiązkowe? Jakie do wyboru?
• Jakie inne zajęcia? Obowiązkowe? Do wyboru?

Kolejne terminy konsultacji to:

• wtorek 15.01. 2019, godz. 10:00-11:00, Collegium Martineum, pokój 2 (obok sali J)
• piątek 18.01.2019, godz. 11:30 -12:30, Collegium Novum, sala 101,

Formularz zgłoszeniowy

Osoby, które mają już wstępny projekt wymarzonego programu, prosimy o kontakt (ajank@wa.amu.edu.pl) w celu uzyskania dostępu do aplikacji, do której będzie można go wpisać i dalej nad nim pracować.

We wtorek 15 stycznia 2019 r. w godz. 11.00-12.30 w sali 109A Collegium Novum odbędzie się publiczna prezentacja projektu doktorskiego mgr Ewy Olszewskiej (tytuł: Understanding the metaphoricity of artworks with MuCADA (Multimodal Critical Analysis of Discourse of Art)) - doktorantki prof. dr hab. Małgorzaty Fabiszak. W prezentacji uczestniczyć będzie przez Skype zaproszona specjalistka prof. Maria Clotilde Almeida z Uniwersytetu w Lizbonie. Prezentacja ma charakter otwarty – zaproszone są wszystkie zainteresowane osoby.

The Department of the History of English has the pleasure to announce that the next meeting of the HELL Reading Club this academic year will take place on Tuesday January the 15th at 4.45p.m, in Room C Collegium Martineum.

The paper to be discussed:

Philip Durkin - Exploring the penetration of loanwords in the core vocabulary of Middle English: carry as a test case 22:2 (2018), 265–282)

can be obtained via Moodle.

The AMU Faculty of English and the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań proudly announce and invite everyone to a series of open lecture-performances on African American Music by Dr. Stan Breckenridge. The second lecture-performance titled American Soul Music of the 1960s: Basic and Motown Soul will take place on January 15, 2019, at 5 p.m. in Aula Nova of the Academy of Music in Poznań, Plac Stefana Stuligrosza 1.

This lecture-performance will present music characteristics and performance practices in American soul music that existed during the 1960s, including their relevance to civil rights and social justice during this time. An emphasis will be placed on understanding differences, through live performance and videos, between soul music's two approaches, namely Basic and Motown.

The Department of the History of English has the pleasure to announce that the next meeting of the Fun with Old English study group this academic year will take place on Tuesday, January the 15th, at 5:45 p.m. in Room C Collegium Martineum.

The text to be discussed,

Elucidarium by Honorius of Autun

can be obtained via Moodle.

Koło naukowe Book Lovers Among Students serdecznie zaprasza na wykład gościnny dr. Krzysztofa Majera (UŁ) pt. "Metafory przekładu i widzialność tłumacza."

Spotkanie odbędzie się w środę 16 stycznia 2019 r. o godz. 18:30 w sali 202A (Novum).

Uwaga: Spotkanie prowadzone w języku polskim

Guest lecture by dr. Rik Vosters (Vrije Universiteit Brussels) 17-18.01.2019

On Thursday 17th and Friday 18th January 2019, Prof. dr. Rik Vosters, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, a Belgian sociolinguist with
a growing international reputation, will visit the Faculty and give
a number of classes on the Dutch language.

The Visit of Prof. dr. Rik Vosters, Free University Brussels, to the Department of Dutch and South African Studies, 17 & 18 January 2019

The Department of Dutch and South African Studies was delighted to welcome Prof. dr. Rik Vosters to AMU Poznań, where he gave three classes to our students.
On Thursday 17 January, Prof. Vosters gave two classes. The first of these was to second-year Master’s students. He provided them with advice on their dissertations, in particular on aspects of language and culture in Belgium related to their topics. The second class was for third-year Bachelor’s students. Prof. Vosters is an expert on historical sociolinguistics and is leading a research project involving the transcription of thousands of letters written in Dutch. He gave the students an introduction to Dutch in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before helping them to begin transcribing letters as part of this project.

On Friday 18, Prof. Vosters gave a very entertaining and insightful illustrated talk to the student group, Oranjes, on the so-called ‘language struggle (taalstrijd)’ in Belgium between Dutch and French.  A presentation on behalf of the department was made at the end of Prof. Vosters’ talk by Dr. Joby. Many thanks to Prof. Vosters for his excellent contribution to the life of the department and to all the students and colleagues who participated in these events.

Guest lecture by dr. Rik Vosters (Vrije Universiteit Brussels) 17-18.01.2019

On Thursday 17th and Friday 18th January 2019, Prof. dr. Rik Vosters, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, a Belgian sociolinguist with
a growing international reputation, will visit the Faculty and give
a number of classes on the Dutch language.

The Visit of Prof. dr. Rik Vosters, Free University Brussels, to the Department of Dutch and South African Studies, 17 & 18 January 2019

The Department of Dutch and South African Studies was delighted to welcome Prof. dr. Rik Vosters to AMU Poznań, where he gave three classes to our students.
On Thursday 17 January, Prof. Vosters gave two classes. The first of these was to second-year Master’s students. He provided them with advice on their dissertations, in particular on aspects of language and culture in Belgium related to their topics. The second class was for third-year Bachelor’s students. Prof. Vosters is an expert on historical sociolinguistics and is leading a research project involving the transcription of thousands of letters written in Dutch. He gave the students an introduction to Dutch in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before helping them to begin transcribing letters as part of this project.

On Friday 18, Prof. Vosters gave a very entertaining and insightful illustrated talk to the student group, Oranjes, on the so-called ‘language struggle (taalstrijd)’ in Belgium between Dutch and French.  A presentation on behalf of the department was made at the end of Prof. Vosters’ talk by Dr. Joby. Many thanks to Prof. Vosters for his excellent contribution to the life of the department and to all the students and colleagues who participated in these events.